Promise of Planning - Global Aspirations and South African Experience Since 2008

This book explores international planning since 2008, providing a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa. The book explores how the 'new promise of planning' has been difficult to achieve as planning becomes an increasingly complex and diverse governmental practice within a perpetually changing world.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2.The forces at work internationally and the new promise of planning 3. The South African context 4. Planning on the national and provincial scales 5. Municipal planning in South Africa 6. Planning and organised civil society 7. Planning and the transformation of the national space economy 8. Planning and spatial transformation 9. Planning and social transformations 10. Towards the just transition? Planning and the natural environment 11. Transformation through crisis? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic 12. The planning profession in South Africa 13. Planning education and research in South African planning 14. Conclusion

About the author

Philip Harrison is the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning funded by the National Research Foundation and hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He was previously member of South Africa's National Planning Commission and Executive Director of Development Planning and Urban Management in the City of Johannesburg.
Alison Todes is Professor Emerita of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She was previously a Research Director at the Human Sciences Research Council, and a Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Housing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Summary

This book explores international planning since 2008, providing a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa. The book explores how the 'new promise of planning' has been difficult to achieve as planning becomes an increasingly complex and diverse governmental practice within a perpetually changing world.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Harrison, Philip Todes Harrison, Harrison Philip, Alison Todes, Todes Alison
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2024
• EAN: 9780367611651
• ISBN: 978-0-367-61165-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: RTPI Library Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, The environment, Republic of South Africa, Urban & municipal planning, Comparative Politics, Science / Environmental Science, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy